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Taught on Sunday 16th
October 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
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Taught on Sunday 9th
October 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
In Genesis chapter 4 we see Adam
and Eve begin to have children, and we see the beginning of the
human race with their first two sons Cain and Able.
We then see how the heart of Cain was such that his sacrifice wasn’t
accepted by God ,but Abel’s was. The book of Hebrews, tells us that
it was by faith that Able offered a more excellent sacrifice than
Cain, it was his attitude towards God that caused the problem.
Cain was just going through the motions, whereas Abel was trusting
god with his whole life and looking forward to the coming of the one
who’s blood would be shed for his sins. With Cain, God was OK, as
long as he didn’t interfere with his life unduly; as long as God
wasn’t inconveniencing him, that was ok. Because Able saw his real
need for a Saviour, his sacrifice was accepted, but Cain’s wasn’t.
As the chapter moves on, we then see how Cain went from bad to worse
by murdering his brother and then, even though God gives him a
second chance, instead of drawing close to God he left the presence
of God and he became the first human being to make his home in this
world. He built a city and named it after his son and began to be
comfortable in this world. Adam and Eve were longing to get back
with God and for things to be how they were in paradise, when they
were clothed in light but Cain began to love this world and to make
his home here. And so it began.
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Taught on Sunday 2nd
October 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
Many people in their minds see
Eve by an apple tree (and I guess maybe it's because men have an
Adams' Apple or something), and somehow people think that the fruit
that she ate was an apple, however, there’s no biblical evidence for
that at all. In fact we know it wasn’t an apple because, as we shall
see at the end of the chapter, God’s going to close up the garden
and we still have apples today, so we know it wasn’t one of those.
But in this picture, people see a snake in the tree, and in their
minds they imagine eve too close to the apple tree and getting in a
conversation with a snake. No wonder the world thinks we’re crazy !
The Hebrew word here is actually the Nachesh, or the ‘Shining One’.
Can you imagine a woman hanging around talking to your typical
snake? It won’t happen. What we’re looking at here is Satan. Now
Satan doesn’t have the power to transform himself into a snake, he’s
an angel, albeit a fallen angel now. But we do know that he can
indwell, and it would appear that Satan is using this snake as a
tool, otherwise it would be unfair for God to curse it.
Now, we need to understand, and we can see here, as we go on, that
this serpent isn’t anything like a snake that we know today. We’ll
see later on that god curses the serpent and makes him to slither
along on the ground, but that’s not what he was like as he speaks to
Eve.
So, we see in this chapter the beginning of man’s body awareness,
because in doing this very act, there was an inversion, which would
need to be put right.
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Taught on Sunday 25th September 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
So in chapter one of Genesis, we
see the creation of the Earth And the placing of man upon the earth,
and then now, as chapter two begins, we have this declaration that
the heavens and the earth and all the host of them were finished,
and we see that God rested on the seventh day.
It wasn’t that God was tired - God is omnipotent which means he
can’t get tired - but rather he rested because there was no more to
create, he had finished his creation, so he rested.
And so he sanctified, and set apart, that seventh day as a day of
rest and he established with Israel, a covenant that they should
keep that Sabbath day through all their generations.
So that kind of begs the question, when did the church start
worshipping on Sundays then? Also in this chapter man is told not to
eat of the fruit of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now
this happens before eve is around, so as his wife’s pastor, does
Adam make a good job of telling her about what God has commanded?
Here also in chapter 2 is the beginning of marriage and the reasons
for it, and was it really a rib that god took to make Eve?
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Taught on Sunday 18th September 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
Let there be light….. and God
divided the light. At one end of the spectrum we have ultra violet
short wave light and at the other end of the spectrum we have other
light that you can’t see in the infrared division, and then, within
the spectrum, there are many divisions of light.
Light is divided into light, colour and sound and all three are
basically the same thing - they’re vibrations at different
frequencies. If you slow the frequency of the vibrations down, you
pick them up audibly, as sound, increase the frequency and you see
colours.
And so we see that this statement in Genesis 1, recorded for us by
Moses all those years ago, is really a very interesting statement
indeed.
Following on we see the whole of Gods creation including the water
canopy around the Earth, and everything else being created after
it’s own kind. And we see God resting on the seventh day, not
because he was tired, but because his creation was complete and
there was nothing left to create. As we follow through chapter one
we see the beauty of His creation.
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Taught on Sunday 11th September 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
In the beginning, God. If you can
understand that, you’re a long way to understand a good many things,
When we say “In the beginning God”, we are recognising that
everything is not just here by accidental compressions of gasses and
explosions and cooling off and the forming of planetary systems, and
that a particular planet with special atmospheric conditions and
hydro conditions made it possible to support a life form. And it
just so happened that the earth was 93 million miles away from the
sun to stop it burning up and it just so happened that the
atmosphere became a combination of nitrogen and oxygen and it just
so happened that there was a balance of about 79 to 20 with one per
cent of varying gasses.
And it just so happened that around the Earth there was a blanket of
Ozone, And it just so happened that there was a magnetic force as
well that’s encircling the earth, also protecting it from the cosmic
rays, and it just so happened that there’s about a two thirds water
to one third land mass ratio, and it just so happened that in the
water there was somehow a fortuitous combination of molecules, of
proteins that happened to come together at just the right time, at
just the right place, in the right proportions, under the right
pressure and under the right heat and so on
and so on, and spontaneously degenerated into a first cell.
What are the chances of that happening by accident ?
If you really want to figure it out, you’ll find that the chances
are so remote as to make it impossible. In the beginning God
created.
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Revelation 19
(part 1: verses 1-10)
Sunday 3rd
July 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
In the opening verses of chapter
19 we have this amazing scene in heaven where John experiences ‘a
great voice of much people in heaven, saying, Alleluia; Salvation,
and glory, and honour, and power, to the Lord our God: for true and
righteous are his judgments: for he has judged the great whore,
which did corrupt the earth with her fornication, and has avenged
the blood of his servants at her hand”.
It is a time when all of the unanswered questions like why does God
allow good people to suffer and why do the wicked prosper, get
answered and we see God as just and true and all things are brought
into perspective.
This scene also shows us the 24 elders and the 4 Cherubim falling
down and worshipping God. In heaven of course things are done rather
differently and we see in verse 7 that the marriage of the Lamb is
come, and his wife has made herself ready and to her was granted
that she should be arrayed in fine linen, clean and white: for the
fine linen is the righteousness of saints.
Notice it’s the marriage of the lamb, not the marriage of the bride,
at this wedding, they sing here comes the groom, not here comes the
bride, and nobody gives the bride away either, Jesus presents the
bride to himself. What a scene!
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Revelation 18
Sunday 26th
June 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
Revelation Chapter 18 brings us
the consummation of warnings as we see the final judgment of all
that is worldly.
That warning is “come out from among her and be separate”, don’t be
deceived by the riches of this world, don’t let the cares and the
riches of this life choke the Word of God out of your life.
All through scripture, not unbelievers, but believers, are warned
about this world, and how it can dangle bait in front of us that
will distract us from things that are really spiritual.
As we move through the chapter we see the kings of the earth and the
merchants of the world stand back in amazement and fear, wailing, as
they see the end of all worldly wealth. But in stark contrast we’re
told to rejoice because God has “avenged you in her” and we see
Babylon, this one world religious system and financial system, cast
into the sea like a millstone and she is no more.
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Revelation 17
Sunday 19th
June 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
John is taken by an angel to see
the judgment of this great whore, this great religious system With
whom the kings of the earth and the people of the earth have been
made drunk (had their perception changed) and have fallen for her -
hook, line and sinker.
On her forehead is written MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF
HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. John is in wonder as he sees
her because although she is religious, he sees her (drinking in the
Greek) the blood of the saints and the martyrs of Jesus Christ.
This woman is sitting on a scarlet covered beast full of names of
blasphemy, having seven heads and ten horns.
The woman is separate and distinct from this beast and we are told
in chapter 12 “the great dragon was cast out, that old serpent
called the devil and Satan, which deceives the whole world”, so it
identifies for us there, that the great scarlet coloured beast with
7 heads and 10 horns is Satan, but who is mystery Babylon?
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Revelation 16
Sunday 12th
June 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
As we look at Revelation chapter
16 there are 7 bowls of God’s wrath that are being poured out, and
we need to understand that now, when God begins to pour out his
wrath on those who have received the mark of the beast, that this
set of judgments do not come like the seals or like the trumpets
earlier in the book because they were kind of restrained and God was
still turning the hearts of men & women to himself.
This time, everything is signed, sealed and delivered. There are now
only those believers like the 144,000 that are sealed, that are left
on the earth. Everyone else has received the mark of the beast.
So the bowls of God’s wrath come now, and they are his vengeance.
They’re no longer coming to turn the hearts of men to him - that
time has past - and it’s all been sorted, who’s on which side. It’s
all done and dusted, changing your mind now is no longer an option.
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Revelation 15
Sunday 5th
June 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
Revelation Chapter 15, although
the shortest chapter in the book is nonetheless an important one
because it tells us about God’s wrath being “filled up” or brought
to completion on a Christ rejecting World. There are just eight
verses in the book but eight times we see the number seven (which is
the number for completeness in scripture) used.
There are seven angels, seven trumpets seven vials and seven plagues
and we see, standing on a see of glass now mingled with fire
(depicting God’s judgment), a multitude of people singing the song
of Moses God’s servant, and the song of the Lamb, Particularly
mentioned are those that have achieved victory over the beast and
his image and over his mark and over the number of his name during
the tribulation, and that victory was achieved through martyrdom.
It’s interesting that there is not one complaint heard anywhere from
this multitude in the song because God is a just God.
At the end of the chapter we appear to see God brooding as he
separates himself in the temple and no man can enter as he finally
doles out his wrath. “He takes no pleasure in the death of the
wicked”. “It’s not his will that any should perish”.
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Revelation 14
(part 2: verses 14-20)
Sunday 29th
May 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
Verses 14-20 of Revelation
chapter 14 is a remarkable section of scripture in that we see from
a spiritual standpoint what is actually the battle of Armageddon in
the physical. This kind of Spiritual insight has been seen in
scripture before of course, for instance, after King David, against
the advice of his councilors, numbered the people of Israel.
As he is preparing to sacrifice to God over the matter he looks and
sees in the spiritual realm an angel swinging a sword over
Jerusalem, as the sword is swung people die of a plague in the
physical realm but when David offers his sacrifice God tells the
angel to put away his sword and the plague stops. In the same way in
this passage in Revelation we see sickles cast upon the earth to
harvest unbelievers and harvest the clusters of the vine of the
earth.
This earthly vine is not the true vine to which we as believers are
grafted into. Jesus said, “I am the (true in the Greek) vine, you
are the branches”. So in this part of chapter 14 we see both the
unbelievers of the world and the world’s systems harvested and put
into the winepress outside the City which covers an area of around
180 miles as the battle of Armageddon takes place.
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Revelation 14
(part 1: verses 1-13)
Sunday 22nd
May 2011 - teaching by our Pastor, Bob Forder
In stark contrast to chapter 13
where the Anti-Christ and the False Prophet take centre stage and
all the world wonders after them, chapter 14 sees the Lamb of God on
mount Zion and the 144,000 Jews made up of 12,000 from each of the
twelve tribes of Israel, gathered at Jerusalem. These are those
which have been sealed in their foreheads by God and come through
the great tribulation totally unscathed.
Also in this chapter John sees three angels, the first one flying
around the earth proclaiming the everlasting gospel with the warning
for people to fear God and turn to Christ.
A second angel warns that there’s nothing left here to hold onto on
the earth, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, and a third angel warns
those on the Earth not to take the mark of or worship the
Anti-Christ because if they do, the same shall drink of the wine of
the wrath of God and be lost forever. A very interesting start to
this chapter which is to be continued next week.
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